printer-driver-postscript-hp: Package is missing all but one PPDs

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

(Copying my bug report from Debian as apparently bug reports regarding hplip are more visible here):

Hi!

While setting up a new print server on the network, we noticed that the binary package printer-driver-postscript-hp is missing the PPDs for many postscript printers actually supported by hplip.

Looking at the .orig.tar.gz:

glaubitz@jessie64:/tmp> tar tf hplip_3.14.6.orig.tar.gz |grep postscript
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t2300_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t2500-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t920-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_z6800_photo-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_z5400-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t1200_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t1500-postscript.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_z5200_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t770_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_t1300_postscript-ps.ppd.gz
hplip-3.14.6/prnt/ps/hp-designjet_z6600-postscript.ppd.gz
glaubitz@jessie64:/tmp>

and comparing this list to the actual binary package:

glaubitz@jessie64:/tmp> dget printer-driver-postscript-hp
dget: retrieving file:/net/deb/debian/pool/main/h/hplip/printer-driver-postscript-hp_3.14.6-1_all.deb
glaubitz@jessie64:/tmp> dpkg-deb -c printer-driver-postscript-hp_3.14.6-1_all.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/share/cups/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 110 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/share/cups/ppd-updaters/printer-driver-postscript-hp.ppd-updater
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/share/doc/printer-driver-postscript-hp/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 4831 2013-08-17 04:19 ./usr/share/doc/printer-driver-postscript-hp/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root 73304 2014-06-15 09:24 ./usr/share/doc/printer-driver-postscript-hp/changelog.Debian.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/lib/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:30 ./usr/lib/cups/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/lib/cups/driver/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1039970 2014-06-15 09:31 ./usr/lib/cups/driver/postscript-hp
glaubitz@jessie64:/tmp>

Apparently the above files are not being installed during build and they are also not installed into any other of the binary packages built by src:hplip. This bug also affects the newer version 3.15.6 of hplip in Ubuntu which is missing the PPD files for the OfficeJet Pro X476dw printer we wanted to install on location.

Cheers,
Adrian